Old Austrian BBb Tuba
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:54 am
I've come by the following tuba and was wondering if anyone had any information on them:
Bell reads:
"Produktiv Genossenschaft der Musik Instrumentenmacher Wien X Laseenburgerstrasse 69"
I believe it to mean something along that lines of "Product of the Music Instrument Builders Cooperative, Vienna X e(X=10 in this case?) Lassenburger Street #69"
It is a 4 rotor BBb with double sided stop arms and clockwork mechanisms. It is between 3/4 and 4/4 size...much smaller than a 186 but much larger than a 621, for example. It is silver...perhaps nickel silver and not just silver plate...it almost doesn't look like silver plate to me. The look is very much like the early Cerveny tubas, though I don't believe this one to be Cerveny because of the braces, silver, and valve setup.
I haven't had a chance to measure it or get pictures of it yet
Any ideas?
Bell reads:
"Produktiv Genossenschaft der Musik Instrumentenmacher Wien X Laseenburgerstrasse 69"
I believe it to mean something along that lines of "Product of the Music Instrument Builders Cooperative, Vienna X e(X=10 in this case?) Lassenburger Street #69"
It is a 4 rotor BBb with double sided stop arms and clockwork mechanisms. It is between 3/4 and 4/4 size...much smaller than a 186 but much larger than a 621, for example. It is silver...perhaps nickel silver and not just silver plate...it almost doesn't look like silver plate to me. The look is very much like the early Cerveny tubas, though I don't believe this one to be Cerveny because of the braces, silver, and valve setup.
I haven't had a chance to measure it or get pictures of it yet
Any ideas?